Fine mini case study in how capitalism induces firms to supply what consumers want.
". . . has vied for (and frequently held) the mantle of busiest McDonald’s in the world." Guess where it is.
As usual, a lot of good stuff from Prof. McCloskey. She's asked how much of our GDP should be devoted to government and she replies, "Put me down for 10 percent slavery to government. Not the 30 to 55 percent at present that rich countries enslave."
I like it.
Also this:
Much of the research on the economics of inequality stumbles on this simple ethical point, focusing on measures of relative inequality such as the Gini coefficient or the share of the top 1 percent rather than on measures of the absolute welfare of the poor. It focuses fashionably on an inequality that’s very hard to measure properly or to alter rather than on a poverty that is very easy to measure properly and alter. They elide the two. Speaking of the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin’s egalitarianism, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt observed that Dworkin in fact, and ethically, “cares principally about the [absolute] value of people’s lives, but he mistakenly represents himself as caring principally about the relative magnitudes of their economic assets.” We should care about lifting up the poor, not how many diamond-incrusted Rolex or Cartier watches the rich have.
The part of the article this sentence is drawn from discusses domestic violence legislation, but it could apply to the recent developments of Title IX and much else besides:
Few considered the consequences of this expansion of state power, or the sometimes dramatic effect on other aspects of our legal doctrine.
Above average for lists of this type. Interesting for at least two reasons: first, it has a number of movies I've seen and really liked, including the underrated Thief (#65), and second, it's compiled by John Nolte who is probably more politically conservative than the typical movie list compiler.
Related: "The 25 Best High School Movies".
Please tell the "No Nukes" crowd that we've f0und at least one use if nuclear power they might well approve of.
The funny Mr. Black doing what he does. (6 minute video.)
It's just so pretty.
See also "Lionel Messi Destroying Great Players in 2019".
You have, or will have soon, two interesting new choices. The new Corvette C8. The forthcoming Porsche Taycan.
I'm with my state on cottage cheese, with Montana on "pumpkin spice anything," and definitely with Louisiana on "cookies with raisins".
The Babylon Bee continues doing a fine job.